“Lorenzo (Ulloa) is blocked. His book
editor suggests he write about a sexual tryst his friend has told him
about, an anonymous one-night stand of some years previously. 'Put lots
of sex in it,' the editor urges him. Their meeting is interrupted by
a beautiful young woman, Lucía (Vega), who confesses she has
been watching him for some time, since she fell in love with his first
novel. Maybe if they spent some time together, he could grow to love
her too? 'I think I just did,' he tells her. Sex and love are the dual
starting points for the entwined plot strands of another Medem walk
in the woods, though the movie itself begins later, fanning outwards
and backwards, teasing with its secrets. Medem likes to disorient; his
characters like to challenge each other too. Conversation is playful
and exploratory: in a word, flirtatious. There's lots of sex here -
exuberant, ecstatic, exhibitionist, giving way to a more damaging hedonism,
a guilty quasi-incestuous betrayal which almost chokes the movie halfway
through - yet this mysterious, surprising and ravishingly beautiful
film rights itself triumphantly in an intoxicatingly romantic last act
of redemption and resurrection.” — Tom Charity, Time
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